Article from 2007, 42 percent of Black British Caribbean families have one lone parent, and 36 percent of Black British African households too


Teenagers: there has been a rise in the number of children living in single-parent families Almost half the black children in Britain are being raised by single parents, new Government figures reveal. A quarter of all youngsters live in one-parent families – treble the proportion in 1972, according to the Office for National Statistics. The biggest percentage of lone-parent households is among black ethnic groups. Forty-eight per cent of black Caribbean families have one parent, as do 36 per cent of black African households.


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